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"The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected."
"I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done."
"My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement."
"The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about."
"I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that."
"The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war."
"When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming."
"It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse."
"I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person."
"The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse."
"Limited government must come politically, not judicially."
"When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back."
"Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months."
"These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country."
"You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school."
"Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification."
"I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does."
"The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives."
"I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis."
"Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference."